Shuttle for weaving wire-cloth



(N0 Model.)

Patented June 3 1884.

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GEORGE FLETCHER WVRIGHT, OF \VORGESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUTTLE FOR WEAVING WIRE-CLOTH.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,895, dated June3, 1884.

- Application filed July 10, 1883. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FLEToHER WRIGHT, of the city and county ofVorcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Shuttles for Weaving \Vire Cloth or Fabrics; and Ido hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and reping conical in shape, or, in other words, the

frustum of a cone hollow at its axis from end to end thereof.

The wire in being drawn off the cop unwinds from the bore, and not fromthe outer surface of such cop.

In my improved shuttle the cop-holding chamber is tapering, and has itsaxis arranged at an acute angle to that of the shuttle-body; and,furthermore, there is extended from the lesseror delivery end of suchchamber a curved guide for the wire to pass upon in its course to andbetween the delivery-rolls situated at or near the middle of one side ofthe shuttle.

In the drawings the shuttle-body A is represented as formed of twowalls, a and b, and a bottom, 0, such walls extending upward from suchbottom, at right angles to it, and at the ends of the body being, withthe bottom, curved, so as to form the body at each of its ends with asuitable nose, d. The cop-chamber shown at B is formed partlyby thewalla and partly by a partition, 6, extending obliquely from theopposite wall, b,- at an acute angle thereto, nearly to the wall a, suchpartition also being extended in a curved form beyond the lesser end ofthe chamber, so as to answer as a guide,

,7 f, for the wire in its passage to and between the two delivery-rollsg g, which are intended to prevent kinking or accidental bending of thewire in passing out of the shuttle. These ing being at or near themiddle of the shuttle and for the wire to pass out of the shuttle in itsflight through the shed of the warps. The bottom of the cop-chamber isthat of the shuttle-body, while the rear or larger or closed end of thechamber is formed by a partition, 76, extending across the shuttle-bodyfrom one to the other of its walls and at an obtuse angle to each ofthem, as representedf This mode of constructing a shuttle or of ers g garranged therein, a cop-holding chamber along the opposite wall of thebody, with the axis of such chamber oblique to that of the body, and acurved. guide extending from the lesser end of such chamber nearly tothe opposite wall of the body, such rollers and curved guide being forso directing the wire from the cop to andthrough the educt as to preventkinking or accidental improper bending of I such wire in passing fromthe cop through and out of the shuttle, substantially as set forth.

2. The shuttle having within it a cop-holding chamber formed in its bodyby its bottoni and one of its walls, a partition extending across suchbody from one to the other of such walls, and another partitionextending from or near one end of the first partition obliquely GEORGEFLETCHER WRIGHT.

Witnesses: 7

It. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

60 having its copchamber arranged within it en-

